Re: LuaTeX vs XeTeX

2021-12-28 Thread Ricardo Berlasso via lyx-users
El lun, 8 nov 2021 a las 8:51, Saša Janiška () escribió: > > Hello, > > just curious which engine do you recommend to be used with Lyx: LuaTeX > or XeTeX? > As pointed out in this thread, *in principle* you can use both without trouble... except when you can't. It's a know "issue" (it can be

Re: LuaTeX vs XeTeX

2021-12-28 Thread Pavel Sanda via lyx-users
On Thu, Dec 16, 2021 at 03:31:15PM +0100, Herbert Voss via lyx-users wrote: > >Could anyone of the better informed review https://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/LuaTeX ? > >Some of the claims (like LuaTeX is still in beta status) are unlikely to be > >truth > >and they can shape LyX users base in a wrong

Re: LuaTeX vs XeTeX

2021-12-27 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse via lyx-users
And 20 seconds is a drama? Come on. And my understanding is that you can pass parameters from the command line to make, so this can become part of an automatable workflow. el On 2021-12-20 22:49 , Steve Litt via lyx-users wrote: Dr Eberhard Lisse via lyx-users said on Mon, 20 Dec 2021

Re: LuaTeX vs XeTeX

2021-12-22 Thread Scott Kostyshak via lyx-users
On Wed, Dec 22, 2021 at 10:03:46AM -0500, Steve Litt via lyx-users wrote: > Scott Kostyshak via lyx-users said on Wed, 22 Dec 2021 07:55:24 -0500 > > >On Wed, Dec 22, 2021 at 07:26:57AM -0500, Steve Litt via lyx-users > >wrote: > >> Scott Kostyshak via lyx-users said on Mon, 20 Dec 2021 20:55:18

Re: LuaTeX vs XeTeX

2021-12-22 Thread Steve Litt via lyx-users
Scott Kostyshak via lyx-users said on Wed, 22 Dec 2021 07:55:24 -0500 >On Wed, Dec 22, 2021 at 07:26:57AM -0500, Steve Litt via lyx-users >wrote: >> Scott Kostyshak via lyx-users said on Mon, 20 Dec 2021 20:55:18 -0500 >> >> >On Mon, Dec 20, 2021 at 03:49:33PM -0500, Steve Litt via lyx-users

Re: LuaTeX vs XeTeX

2021-12-22 Thread Scott Kostyshak via lyx-users
On Wed, Dec 22, 2021 at 07:26:57AM -0500, Steve Litt via lyx-users wrote: > Scott Kostyshak via lyx-users said on Mon, 20 Dec 2021 20:55:18 -0500 > > >On Mon, Dec 20, 2021 at 03:49:33PM -0500, Steve Litt via lyx-users > >wrote: > > > >> Because I > >> personalize every book, I need to recompile

Re: LuaTeX vs XeTeX

2021-12-22 Thread Steve Litt via lyx-users
Scott Kostyshak via lyx-users said on Mon, 20 Dec 2021 20:55:18 -0500 >On Mon, Dec 20, 2021 at 03:49:33PM -0500, Steve Litt via lyx-users >wrote: > >> Because I >> personalize every book, I need to recompile for every order, so I >> might research using PDFTeX. Thanks for the tip. > >Does the

Re: LuaTeX vs XeTeX

2021-12-20 Thread Scott Kostyshak via lyx-users
On Mon, Dec 20, 2021 at 03:49:33PM -0500, Steve Litt via lyx-users wrote: > Because I > personalize every book, I need to recompile for every order, so I might > research using PDFTeX. Thanks for the tip. Does the personalization change every page or just a few? Best, Scott signature.asc

Re: LuaTeX vs XeTeX

2021-12-20 Thread Steve Litt via lyx-users
Dr Eberhard Lisse via lyx-users said on Mon, 20 Dec 2021 08:49:24 +0200 >PDFLaTeX is much faster that LuaLaTeX but to be hoest, nowadays the >day to day stuff is so fast anyway that that doesn't matter. I noticed that my new book, which is much shorter than most, took about triple the time,

Re: LuaTeX vs XeTeX

2021-12-19 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse via lyx-users
Stve, I like the Noto fonts, but my understanding is that all TeX Gyre fonts also work under PDFLaTeX. But, LUA is really cool. You can put simple stuff into the preamble like \usepackage{luacode} \begin{luacode*} socket = require "socket" function

Re: LuaTeX vs XeTeX

2021-12-18 Thread Herbert Voss via lyx-users
Am 17.12.21 um 20:20 schrieb Virgil Arrington: *From: *Herbert Voss via lyx-users <mailto:lyx-users@lists.lyx.org> *Sent: *Friday, December 17, 2021 6:06 AM *To: *lyx-users@lists.lyx.org *Subject: *Re: LuaTeX vs XeTeX Am 16.12.21 um 22:12 schrieb Virgil Arrington via lyx-users: > &

Re: LuaTeX vs XeTeX

2021-12-17 Thread Steve Litt via lyx-users
Herbert Voss via lyx-users said on Thu, 16 Dec 2021 15:31:15 +0100 >- no more fiddling around with the encoding, everything is UTF-8 >- no more restrictions in using fonts, all current types are supported, >    like pfb, ttf, utf, ttc, ... >- easy integration of the script language Lua into a

RE: LuaTeX vs XeTeX

2021-12-17 Thread Virgil Arrington via lyx-users
From: Herbert Voss via lyx-users<mailto:lyx-users@lists.lyx.org> Sent: Friday, December 17, 2021 6:06 AM To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org<mailto:lyx-users@lists.lyx.org> Subject: Re: LuaTeX vs XeTeX Am 16.12.21 um 22:12 schrieb Virgil Arrington via lyx-users: > > Starting with th

Re: LuaTeX vs XeTeX

2021-12-17 Thread Herbert Voss via lyx-users
Am 17.12.21 um 15:03 schrieb Neal Becker: I thought all LaTeX have to pass strict tests and produce identical results. Any difference due to different fonts. Is this correct? no. It is correct only for TeX, the original one! run the example with pdftex, xetex, and  luatex \hsize 1cm

Re: LuaTeX vs XeTeX

2021-12-17 Thread Neal Becker via lyx-users
I thought all LaTeX have to pass strict tests and produce identical results. Any difference due to different fonts. Is this correct? On Fri, Dec 17, 2021 at 6:06 AM Herbert Voss via lyx-users wrote: > > Am 16.12.21 um 22:12 schrieb Virgil Arrington via lyx-users: > > Starting with the

Re: LuaTeX vs XeTeX

2021-12-17 Thread Herbert Voss via lyx-users
Am 16.12.21 um 22:12 schrieb Virgil Arrington via lyx-users: Starting with the completely clean files, I added the Microtype package to both and compiled them. As with my first test, I got different results. XeTeX once again produced many more hyphenated lines -- essentially the same as it

Re: LuaTeX vs XeTeX

2021-12-16 Thread Virgil Arrington via lyx-users
On 12/16/2021 3:17 PM, Herbert Voss via lyx-users wrote: Do _not_ load any font and choose an empty preanble, then Computer Modern is used for pdflatex and Latin Modern for lualatex/xelatex. And then you will see _no_ difference in the created pdf. I did as you said, and you are right; with

Re: LuaTeX vs XeTeX

2021-12-16 Thread Herbert Voss via lyx-users
Am 16.12.21 um 21:02 schrieb Virgil Arrington via lyx-users: On 12/16/2021 9:31 AM, Herbert Voss via lyx-users wrote: LuaTeX ,and XeTeX too, are more or less frozen code, just like TeX. Only bugs will be fixed. There are no good reasons _not_ to use LuaTeX instead of pdfTeX:

Re: LuaTeX vs XeTeX

2021-12-16 Thread Virgil Arrington via lyx-users
On 12/16/2021 9:31 AM, Herbert Voss via lyx-users wrote: LuaTeX ,and XeTeX too, are more or less frozen code, just like TeX. Only bugs will be fixed. There are no good reasons _not_ to use LuaTeX instead of pdfTeX: I just performed an interesting experiment comparing the results from compiling

Re: LuaTeX vs XeTeX

2021-12-16 Thread Herbert Voss via lyx-users
Am 16.12.21 um 14:45 schrieb Pavel Sanda via lyx-users: On Mon, Nov 08, 2021 at 09:49:29AM +0100, Herbert Voss wrote: Am 08.11.21 um 09:46 schrieb Saša Janiška: On Mon, 8 Nov 2021 08:58:37 +0100 Herbert Voss wrote: LuaHBTeX   (HB for HarfBuzz) is the default engine for lualatex Thank you

Re: LuaTeX vs XeTeX

2021-12-16 Thread Pavel Sanda via lyx-users
On Mon, Nov 08, 2021 at 09:49:29AM +0100, Herbert Voss wrote: > Am 08.11.21 um 09:46 schrieb Saša Janiška: > >On Mon, 8 Nov 2021 08:58:37 +0100 > >Herbert Voss wrote: > > > > > >>LuaHBTeX   (HB for HarfBuzz) is the default engine for lualatex > >> > >Thank you since I was not aware of it despite

Re: LuaTeX vs XeTeX

2021-11-20 Thread Dr Eberhard W Lisse
That's from 2016, right? On 2021-11-08 15:57 , Joel Kulesza wrote: [...] > I don't necessarily recommend one versus the other, but I usually use > `pdflatex` unless I cannot, in which case I opt for `lualatex`. In > those cases, my preference was somewhat informed by other > Internet-based

Re: LuaTeX vs XeTeX

2021-11-08 Thread Steve Litt
Saša Janiška said on Mon, 8 Nov 2021 08:51:26 +0100 >Hello, > >just curious which engine do you recommend to be used with Lyx: LuaTeX >or XeTeX? These days, I always opt for luatex and lualatex. They just always work, and if they don't, I know enough Lua that I might be able to strongarm things.

Re: LuaTeX vs XeTeX

2021-11-08 Thread Joel Kulesza
On Mon, Nov 8, 2021 at 1:50 AM Herbert Voss wrote: > > Am 08.11.21 um 09:46 schrieb Saša Janiška: > > On Mon, 8 Nov 2021 08:58:37 +0100 > > Herbert Voss wrote: > > > > > >> LuaHBTeX (HB for HarfBuzz) is the default engine for lualatex > >> > > Thank you since I was not aware of it despite it

Re: LuaTeX vs XeTeX

2021-11-08 Thread Herbert Voss
Am 08.11.21 um 09:46 schrieb Saša Janiška: On Mon, 8 Nov 2021 08:58:37 +0100 Herbert Voss wrote: LuaHBTeX   (HB for HarfBuzz) is the default engine for lualatex Thank you since I was not aware of it despite it is being installed on my Debian machine. Otherwise, I was aware of LuaTeX

Re: LuaTeX vs XeTeX

2021-11-08 Thread Saša Janiška
On Mon, 8 Nov 2021 08:58:37 +0100 Herbert Voss wrote: > LuaHBTeX   (HB for HarfBuzz) is the default engine for lualatex > Thank you since I was not aware of it despite it is being installed on my Debian machine. Otherwise, I was aware of LuaTeX since I was considering to use ConTeXt instead

Re: LuaTeX vs XeTeX

2021-11-07 Thread Herbert Voss
Am 08.11.21 um 08:51 schrieb Saša Janiška: just curious which engine do you recommend to be used with Lyx: LuaTeX or XeTeX? LuaHBTeX   (HB for HarfBuzz) is the default engine for lualatex Herbert -- lyx-users mailing list lyx-users@lists.lyx.org